Anatom3DFemale urethra
Urethra feminina · Ženská močová trubice
Urinary system · female only
Looks like
A short tube about 4 cm long from the bladder to its opening in front of the vagina.
What it does
Carries urine from the bladder out of the body.
Keeping it well
Its shortness makes urinary infections common; burning and frequency need treatment, and fever with back pain may be a kidney infection.
Related conditions
- Bedwetting (nocturnal enuresis)
- Benign prostatic hyperplasia
- Bladder cancer
- Bone metastases and spinal cord compression
- Interstitial cystitis (bladder pain syndrome)
- Intestinal worms & schistosomiasis
- Neurogenic bladder
- Obstructed labour and obstetric fistula
- Pelvic organ prolapse
- Urethral stricture
- Urinary incontinence
- Urinary tract infection
- Vesicoureteral reflux